Ruby Rod Laser Kit

Ruby laser pulse lengths are generally a millisecond in length.

Ruby rod laser kit. A ruby laser consists of a flash tube like you would have on a camera a ruby rod and two mirrors one half silvered. The most expensive components is the ruby yag rod and the mirrors. Ruby laser is not very efficient thus very big energies needed to excite ruby laser rod. Ruby laser rods are best suited for the lab or in medical applications.

A ruby laser consists of three important elements. The light excites atoms in the ruby. Ruby laser is one of the few solid state lasers that produce visible light. A ruby laser usually has a ruby rod that is pumped with very high energy from a flashtube to achieve a population inversion.

Ruby lasers produce powerful pulses of visible red laser light. These rods have the latest best most resilient coatings in the industry. The fluorescence life of ruby is in the millisecond range which permits easy storage of large quantanties of energy. So power bank must be that big if you want high pulse energies.

Ruby rods with dielectric mirrored ends sizes from 1 4 diameter to 5 8 diameter lengths from 3 long to 6 with parallel ends to 8 arc seconds or better. The power setup it is simpliest by. Now it burns holes through steel razor blades and makes a plume of fire when striking targets containi. Ruby laser rod re polishing and recoating is available with 2 3 week lead time.

All you need is a xenon flashtube ruby yag rod capacitors charging and pulse transformer power source and trigger. Construction of ruby laser. The laser in its non lasing state 2. Ruby laser click on any picture for a larger view homebuilt ruby laser the ruby laser was the very first laser device in history.

Laser medium the pump source and the optical resonator. The parts are pretty easy to buy online. It emits deep red light of wavelength 694 3 nm. A ruby laser most often consists of a ruby rod that must be pumped with very high energy usually from a flashtube to achieve a population inversion.

The first working laser was a ruby laser developed in may 1960. Please review our material quality info below and inquire with our sales team if you would like more information. This laser generates pulses of visible light in a deep red color at a wavelength of 694 3 nm. Even though making a handheld pulsed laser weapon is nearly impossible it s still fun to build a ruby yag laser.

Ruby laser is the first successful laser developed by maiman in 1960.